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there were a trip with there you know. which are. either going to kill him as well you know what we go by. what happens get checkers shekar. hard or harder for her to make the trip but she insisted on knowing. it was the biggest day our. today. and it was the first british day for me. mom said i was following dad around like a puppy. what are you doing where you go and and then he would ask me if i wanted to go to the store so i didn't notice i was doing this but he they said that when.

i would go to like go to the store with dad just to get milk or something that i would walk up to the front door and just stand there and because i still hadn't developed a redeveloped a habit of reaching out open a door i spent the entirety of my don't life walking up the doors and stop and wait no somebody else to open the door and i didn't realize i was still doing it he'd be like standing behind me like or you don't open the door not in that seam look inside step out of the way and let him open the door until they call that to my attention i realized how stupid it was and not stupid but just weird so i had to make a conscious effort to say ok i'm going to open the door today and be aware that i could do that i can open the door walk outside sit down walk in the grass with my bare feet and. you know look at the moonrise and all and in those things that. that we all take for granted you know being able to sit down with your mother and put your arm around her and and break bread you know with your family and. like i say

that's a good example walking barefoot in the grass i didn't see grass for. over twenty three years something like this when i first got out it was rather a driveway in a sidewalk. afraid cops go to get it you know. when not had a fight over next door in a four cop cars over there who he panicked who were i'm locked all the doors i said i'm about to actually let's go and i don't he said don't know about i don't lock the door he was scared to death he won't drive a car right now in the state of oklahoma because he's afraid of plants made it and getting you know put some drugs at it and say it was yes i do know time and you know they were going over alone and he won't drive now you know drive in

nebraska kansas or wherever is and that they want that here. i don't think i'll ever get over that in that cell for twenty years. robert king a long time death row inmate i met him when i first got there he was a good guy they made him an orderly they trusted him he. was a good guy he didn't give the inmates any trouble or even give the staff any trouble until the day he died until he was scheduled to be executed robert had. resolved not to let the state of oklahoma kill him so he purchased and stored enough narcotics to kill himself several times over. in defiance of. or despite the rules and procedures that are and put into place to prevent such a thing on the afternoon of robert's execution he took enough drugs to kill him

self several times over when it was discovered. the agents for the state of oklahoma instead of letting that man die which was their objective that day is that he leave this earth he did it for them instead of allowing his death in this peaceful manner that he chose by drug overdose they rushed him to the hospital pumped his stomach gave him the drugs to counter act the narcotics took him back to prison and two hours later they executed him they strapped him to a table stuck a needle in his arm and took his life it is the most bizarre and frightening thing that happened to me when i was on death row and of all of the horrors that i had to witness for two decades it was the one thing that i can't let go of the fact that they saved a man's life at the last minute so that they could killing. us

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the supreme court turned him down. not sure but. said. so. two hundred twenty second execution under rick period of four under the currently sixty first execution in texas is about to take place.

all over the state of texas and even at washington d.c. people like rochester best texas sex secure sure. i'll find out it was like wow i was. told the first time i. bring up the national guard of our. lovely family. back on. caucus sites a. lot

of them was. the nation on my. mind it was. the crowds us. so. lethal injection was used in nineteen thirty eight and nineteen thirty nine it was started by hitler's personal physician karl brandt ten thousand

defective children were eliminated with lethal injections in the reich in thirty eight and thirty nine the same mentality that they use then we use today we call it humane to make it easier on those who do the killing rather than on those who are killed zikos on be it was responsible for the deaths of millions of people in death chambers across poland and yet in twenty ten in the united states arizona and mississippi use zajac line be gas pellets to liquidate people in gas chambers nobody wants to be linked to the nazis we can all agree that was among the worst regimes that ever existed in humanity and it's easy to point the finger at the

nazis and say how terrible they were but the historical antecedents of the american death penalty today come in large part from the nazis who is coral brant no american knows hitler's personal physician but he gave us the idiology of using a needle to kill people in the name of the law because it was easier for those who didn't who put the needle in the arm this is america. if we're going to say how great lethal injection is then let's give credit where credit is due and give credit to karl brandt and the nazis for coming up with that idea well i don't see that it's categorically more violence than than forcibly dragging a person off to be locked in a cage forever. you know it's not the kind of thing that i think of when i think of the word violence i think of. far more bloody and painful punishments than than. a procedure that is basically similar to what is done for

a medical procedure except that the person doesn't make up. that that is what strikes me is if that is what the term violence refers to.

started. warning. i would pretty much give anything to be able to. work that way

and the saddest part is that state of texas gets their way and they execute him i won't be allowed to touch him until after he's dead. tell me what justified about that other state at least let you have a last visit with your family state of texas don't you get your last visit but it's still perplexing last we keep making jokes about getting real friendly with the guards me and my mother in law so we can just reach our hand through the window one time and just pop him a couple slapped across space you know they had a lot of shit. my mother in law thinks she can convince.

mobile home. perfect for a guest cabin. goal is to fit me up in business with a cabin. along the side out here and get rid of it and do it. looking for. fatality have. decided to. give me a business have some income coming in. have to worry about working.

drawing. for hours. when you look at it you know.

that's what their thoughts are. in this one. that was one of my i think because it's just so pretty and he uses color. i wish he would concentrate more on the pretty pieces. than the anti death penalty. and there's a big story about this. the first time tony made this piece the hand looked to lifeline. they literally took it away from him took down his entire sail. took the hand took everything he had with it. told him the hand was made for an escape attempt. that my son and he wouldn't wouldn't even think about it don't escape him beyond it just wouldn't happen. so i don't want him thinking about it ok i feel like. concentrating. on

native american stuff even the african match. my unicorn. pretty. butterfly to me that's what i want him working on but he laughs at me. everybody. tony shouldn't be there tell him he's got an excellent case to be able to get relief and be out of there to be able to literally walk free from death row but all these people that keep telling us i mean their words and we're not being shown anything nobody we're not one step closer now than we were fourteen years ago to actually seeing him walk out the door and because we deal with it every week when we go to visit whether we talk about it or when we put our hands up

on that window and say love you take care. chances aren't really very good. and now it's getting to the point where they've executed more and more of his friends most of the ones that i knew when i first started seeing him and i've met some of them met some of those family and gotten to know most of those who've been executed already probably like two or three left that are still alive that i knew before and he was lose and what to him are you the last of his friends and he says every time there's another execution it seems like he dies a little bit more inside i

don't see the justice and i can guarantee you that all of the people that say it brings closure i think they're going to be very disappointed i don't think it's going to bring any closure to anybody. i just know. i.

personally i can't understand why anybody would want to witness that. i won't be there i will not witness them killing my son. i'll be there in huntsville but i will be far away you'll know i'm there i cried. but he did want me to see that either. that his dad will go home. and probably his

cousin. and they'll be there to be supportive for him. so he'll know he's not alone in. the matter what they did. are do i hate that i can't be there. so yeah. that. he's my only son at. that. point. but i would not handle that well. how do you not think i could do it. to be sitting in a room with him laying their crap down in that gurney. knowing that that's their last minute. and they're going to ask him if he's got any last words

what's he supposed to say. he's told them all he did. but they don't want to believe anything you feel. we are sitting here and we can look back on an america that used to have slavery and shake our heads in disbelief that how could this country have slavery for two hundred forty six years and think it was ok but during that time those people

thought it was ok it was a norm for them the way the death penalty is a norm for us so things change in society society grows it becomes better it just does it at a very slow and frustrating pace and that's what will happen in this country with this issue we will ultimately reach a point where the average person in this country accepts the idea that killing people in the name of the law is not good it is not a good thing for this country to be doing but we are not at that day yet.

time. and relax. and. the. night before he. comes. to visit. any. time.

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